Bank-protector



L'. HILL.- BANK PROTEcTom APPL'l'cATmN FILED JUNE 3. 1920.

Patented Nov. 9, 1920.

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'BANK PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION man JUNE 3. 1920.

Patented N ov. 9, 1920.

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and useful Bank-Protector, of which the follof Elvins, in' the county of St. Francois, Y

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Patented Nov. v9,. 192e.

s peeineeuo'n of Lettere raient. Applicaties mea :une s, 1920. serial ne. 386,225.

parts throughout the several views, the numeral designates a Abank or other building rovlded with the usual teller or collection ndows 6.

The invention, as reducedto practice, in-

l cludes a plurality of receptacles 7, one o lowing 1s a specicationg p Y. Y i which beingmeunted at eachwindewebelow My invention is a bank protector and its `the counter .8 thereof. Extending obliquely'A To all whom/t may concern.' p

Bef it known that I L EMREAUX HILL, a citizen of the United gtates, and a resident and State of Missouri, have invented a new principal object is to provide an apparatus from each of the receptacles 7 and upwardly to be installed in banks and other places handling large cash receipts, as a protection against bank robberies or hold-ups. of the outer edg'e-.IQ each of the counters 8 Further the invention contemplates an is cut away as alt/T210 so that a chemicall apparatus vwherein an agent will be. distreated powder contained in the receptacle charged into the face of a robber to render may be discharged through these nozzles 9 him unconscious or blind. f beyond the outer edge of the counters 8 and The invention also provides an apparatus into the face of the would-be robbers. wherein receptacles containing a chemical A tank Ycontaining compressed air is agent, preferably in powdered form, are ardesignated at 11 and is arranged at any conranged at convenient points at the vvarious Avenient point in the building, as shown in windows ot a bank or like institution, all Fig. 1. A pipe line 12 leads from the comtoward the outer edge of the counter 8 is a flared discharge nozzle V9. The under Aface of whichareincommu'nication with a source pressed air tank 11 and is disposed rear- I i 'view of one of the compartments of la and showing one of the receptacles and part employees at the various windows, the valves l accompanying drawings, wherein:

1 in like characters of reference of compressed air, whereupon persons, with wardly of the receptacles 7 and has comvthe intent 'to rob or holdupany one or more .municatio'n...therewith by Vbranch pipes 13,

of 4the various. employees atv the lvarious in each of which`avalve llis arrang'ed'." AVY windows, the contents of any one or more of pipe coupling 15 is disposed upon the inner the receptacles will be blown therefrom and lend of each of the branch pipes 13 and directed into the robbers face to render engaged in the forward branch of each ot them helpless or unconscious until they can these couplings is an upwardly inclined nozbe overpowered. zle 16,'the outlet of each of which vis dis- It is another object of the invention to posed inalinement with the loore of the provide a bank protecting apparatus which nozzles `9.- A pipe line 17, made'up of seccan be readily installed in any bank or the tions extending through the receptacles 7 like, and which when operated will sound and engaged in the couplings 15, is aran audible alarm at a convenient point outranged in parallel relation to the pipe line side of the bank to call oilicers of the law. 12 and communicating with this pipe line With the preceding and other objects and 17 is a pipe 18 extending to a lpoint outside advantages. 1nmind, the invention consists of the building and has communication with in the novel combination of elements, con arwhistle 19 or anyv other audible signal. structions vand arrangement of parts to be rlfhus, upon opening of either of the valves hereinafter enlarged upon and recited in to permit air to flow from the pipe 12 into the subjoined claims and illustrated in the one or more of the receptacles 7 to discharge its contents, the air will circulate through Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of abank the pipe 17 and into the pipe 18 to sound equipped with the apparatus, the whistle 19.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical sectlonal From the disclosure it will be obvious bank that upon attempt to hold up any one of the of the respective windows being attacked of the pipe line associated therewith, the p will be opened to admit air Jfrom the air receptacle beingshown in vertical cross section; and line to enter the receptacles, thus discharg- Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top plan view of ing a volume of the powder into the robone of the receptacles and pipe line having bers face.. y parts broken away. A It is to be understood that the form of my Referring in detail to the drawings whereinvention herein shown and` described `is designate like to be taken as a preferred example of the in each' bootl'of abank, afco'mpreevd a1r same, and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts matvl be resorted to without departing from t e spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims. i

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire .to secure and rotect by Letters Patent` of the United tates, is:

1. In a bank protectingA apparatus, a receptacle arranged' at eac window of the various compartments of the bank, an outlet nozzle communicating with each of the receptaclesand arranged exteriorly of the windows, a source of compressed air communi eating avithiheireceptaelesfand ineansA Y:for

controlling the passage of air into the receptacles to discharge the contents thereof throulgh the nozzles.

2. n a bank protector, a receptacle for containin a chemical agent and arranged in eac booth of a bank, a comressed air tank, a pipe line leading thererom, a branch pipe leading from the air pipe and communicating with each of the receptacles, a valvein each branch pipe controlling the passage of air to its respective receptacle, and an upwardly inclineddischarge spout communicating. with each of the receptacles and arrangedexterlorly of the booth. -3. Ina bank protector, a receptacle 'for containing a chemical agent andgarranged tank, a pipe line leading therefrom, a branch pipe leading from the air pipe and: communicating with each of the receptacles, a valve in each branch pipe controlling the passage of air to its respective receptacle,

an upwardly inclined'discharge spout communcating with' each of the receptacles and arranged exteriorly of the booth, and an audible si al in communication with the air line an sounded uponadmission of air into any one of the receptacles. g4. The combination with a counter, of a receptacle disposed beneath the counter and adapted to contain a chemical agent, a `discharge spout leading from the receptacle and extending upwardly and havin its outlet disposed in close proximity to t e outer edge of the counter, and means for conducting compressed air to the receptacle to blow its contents therefrom. i

5. The combination with a building including. a plurality of lcommunicating business-transalating booths,eachY of which havs in a window, of a receptacle for containing `a c emical agent arranged adjacent each winl dow, nupwardly and angularly disposed flared dischar e nozzle extending from each of the receptac es and arranged exteriorly of the window, a plpe line' establishing com. munication with all the receptacles, an audiipe line, a second pipe ble signal in the in the booths and arline arranged 4wit ranged parallel to the windows, branch pipes leading from the last mentioned pipe ine and communicating with each of the receptacles, a compressed air lstorage tank communlcating with the second mentioned pipe line, and a valve in'each of the branch pipes VQr 4controlling the passage of air to LEMREAUX HILL.

, any one of the receptacles to eject the con- 

